Ernest Gellner
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Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ernest André Gellner FRAI was a British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph, when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by The Independent as a "one-man crusader for critical rationalism".
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Published Works
- Nations and Nationalism (1983) (3639)
- Conditions of liberty : civil society and its rivals (1995) (777)
- Thought and Change (1964) (645)
- Postmodernism, reason and religion (1992) (460)
- Saints of the Atlas. (1970) (331)
- Encounters with nationalism (1994) (253)
- Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (1991) (248)
- Patrons and clients in Mediterranean societies (1977) (224)
- Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History (1989) (223)
- Populism : its meaning and national characteristics (1970) (220)
- The Sources of Social Power, I, A History of Power from the Beginning to A. D. 1760. (1988) (218)
- The idea of a social science (1960) (217)
- Conditions Of Liberty (1994) (213)
- Culture, identity, and politics (1987) (203)
- The Logic of Liberty (1951) (191)
- Nations and Nationalism.(New Perspectives on the Past.) (1985) (160)
- Legitimation of Belief (1975) (150)
- The Blackwell dictionary of twentieth-century social thought (1994) (149)
- Relativism And The Social Sciences (1987) (130)
- Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma (1998) (120)
- Concepts and Society (1970) (112)
- Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences (1973) (107)
- The Unwritten Law in Albania (1956) (101)
- The psychoanalytic movement (1986) (95)
- Soviet and Western Anthropology (1982) (95)
- Ernest Gellner's reply: ‘Do nations have navels?’ (1996) (90)
- The Family Herds (1955) (88)
- The coming of nationalism, and its interpretation: the myths of nation and class (1998) (82)
- Words and things (1961) (79)
- Reason and Culture: The Historic Role of Rationality and Rationalism. (1993) (75)
- Postmodernism, Reason and Religion. (1994) (74)
- Reason and Culture (1992) (73)
- Nations et nationalisme (1990) (72)
- Arabs and Berbers : from tribe to nation in North Africa (1975) (70)
- Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove (1995) (70)
- The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason (1993) (63)
- Scale and Nation (1973) (52)
- Ethnomethodology: The Re-Enchantment Industry or The Californian Way of Subjectivity (1975) (49)
- The Ground and Nature of the Right. (1957) (42)
- On Civil Society: Why Eastern Europe's Revolutions Could Succeed (1995) (42)
- State and Society in Soviet Thought (1988) (41)
- Inquiry into Inquiries (1956) (37)
- Nationalism and the Two Forms of Cohesion in Complex Societies (1983) (37)
- Nationalism and politics in Eastern Europe (1993) (36)
- The New Idealism — Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences (1968) (36)
- Ideal Language and Kinship Structure (1957) (34)
- Spectacles and Predicaments: Essays in Social Theory (1980) (34)
- Islam and Marxism: some comparisons (1991) (33)
- Malinowski between Two Worlds: The Polish Roots of an Anthropological Tradition. (1990) (31)
- The Concept of Kinship: With Special Reference to Mr. Needham's "Descent Systems and Ideal Language" (1960) (28)
- Capitalism and Class in the Middle East: Theories of Social Change and Economic Development (1985) (28)
- Words and things: An examination of, and an attack on, linguistic philosophy (1979) (27)
- Nature and Society in Social Anthropology (1963) (27)
- BEYOND TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD* (1975) (23)
- Notes towards a Theory of Ideology (1978) (21)
- The Politics of Anthropology (1988) (21)
- Arabs and Berbers (1973) (20)
- Patterns of Rural Rebellion in Morocco: tribes as minorities (1962) (20)
- Contemporary Thought and Politics (1976) (19)
- Cohesion and Identity: the Maghreb from Ibn Khaldun to Emile Durkheim (1975) (19)
- The Concept of Kinship: And Other Essays on Anthropological Method and Explanation (1987) (18)
- Ethnic Persistence and National Transformation@@@Nations before Nationalism@@@Nations and Nationalism (1984) (17)
- The Soviet and the Savage [and Comments and Replies] (1975) (16)
- Theoretical Problems of 'Economic Anthropology' (1974) (15)
- Ethnicity and Anthropology in the Soviet Union (1977) (14)
- Homeland of the unrevolution (1993) (14)
- IV.—TIME AND THEORY IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1958) (14)
- Meaning in History: W. Dilthey's Thoughts on History and Society (1962) (13)
- Islamic Dilemmas: Reformers, Nationalists and Industrialization. The Southern Shore of the Mediterranean (1987) (13)
- Patronos y clientes (1986) (13)
- The Price of Velvet: On Thomas Masaryk and Vaclav Havel (1992) (11)
- No More for Ever: A Saharan Jewish Town (1966) (11)
- Our Current Sense of History (1971) (11)
- Women and Property In Morocco: their changing relation to the process of social stratification in the Middle Atlas (1975) (10)
- Nationalism reconsidered and E. H. Carr (1992) (10)
- A Wittgensteinian Philosophy of (or against) the Social Sciences (1975) (10)
- Sanctity, Puritanism, Sécularisation and Nationalism in North Africa [A case Study] (1963) (10)
- Return of a Native (1996) (9)
- The Devil in Modern Philosophy (1974) (9)
- VII.—Ethics and Logic (1955) (9)
- An Anthropological View of War and Violence (1992) (9)
- The Unknown Apollo of Biskra: The Social Base of Algerian Puritanism (1974) (9)
- Democracy and Industrialization (1970) (8)
- A Russian marxist philosophy of history (1980) (8)
- From the Revolution to Liberalization (1976) (8)
- Explanations in History (1956) (8)
- Arabs and Berbers: From Tribe to Nation in North Africa (1975) (8)
- Democracy and Industrialisation (1967) (7)
- A SOCIAL CONTRACT IN SEARCH OF AN IDIOM (1975) (7)
- Democracy in France (1966) (7)
- Segmentation: Reality or Myth? (1995) (7)
- Soviets against Wittfogel; or, the anthropological preconditions of mature Marxism (1985) (7)
- What do we need now? Social anthropology and its new global context (1993) (7)
- The mightier pen (1993) (7)
- The Logic of Personality. (1953) (7)
- The Dramatis Personae of History (1989) (7)
- An Ethic of Cognition (1976) (6)
- Le nationalisme en apesanteur (1991) (6)
- The Psychoanalytic Movement. The Cunning of Unreason. London. FontanaPress, sic) 1985. (1985) (6)
- The Political Thought of Bronislaw Malinowski (1987) (6)
- Symposium: Explanations in History (1956) (6)
- Positivism, Relativism, and Narrative in the Logic of the Historical Sciences@@@Justifying Historical Descriptions@@@Relativism and the Social Sciences (1987) (5)
- The Social Roots of Egalitarianism (1979) (5)
- Malinowski Go Home: Reflections on the Malinowski Centenary Conferences (1985) (5)
- The Primitive Norm and Its Evolution [and Comments] (1977) (5)
- The Pluralist Anti-Levellers of Prague (1972) (4)
- The Great Patron A reinterpretation of tribal rebellions (1969) (4)
- Knowing How and Validity (1951) (4)
- Book Review: In Defence of Orientalism (1980) (4)
- The alchemists of sociology 1 (1959) (4)
- The last Marxists (1994) (4)
- Selected philosophical themes (2003) (4)
- Tractatus Sociologico-Philosophicus (1984) (3)
- Reflections on Violence@@@Military Organization and Society (1954) (3)
- Independence in the central high Atlas (1957) (3)
- Liberalism in modern times : essays in honour of José G. Merquior (1996) (3)
- Adam Ferguson and the Surprising Robustness of Civil Society (1996) (3)
- Nationalisms and the New World Order (1994) (3)
- State and Revolution in Islam (1979) (2)
- MYTH, IDEOLOGY AND REVOLUTION (1969) (2)
- Le statut scientifique des sciences sociales in L'épistémologie des sciences sociales. (1984) (2)
- Muslim Society: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Vol. 23 (1983) (2)
- Whither anthropology? Or: whither Bronislaw? (1998) (2)
- Shaykh and Effendi: Changing Patterns of Authority Among the El Shabana of Southern Iraq (1971) (2)
- The Muslim Concept of Freedom Prior to the 19th Century. By Rosenthal Franz. (Published in Leiden by E. J. Brill, 1960. Cloth, 19 guilders. 133 pages.). (1964) (2)
- FROM IBN KHALDUN TO KARL MARX1 (1961) (2)
- Coercion, Cognition, and Production: Gellner's Challenge to Historical Materialism and Postmodernism (1994) (2)
- Class before State: the Soviet treatment of African feudalism (1977) (2)
- The Civil and the Sacred (2001) (2)
- Analysis and Ontology (1951) (1)
- Frazer and Malinowski: A CA Discussion [and Comments and Reply] (1966) (1)
- Utopia and Reality: A Collective Portrait of American Socialists.@@@Populism: Its Meaning and National Characteristics. (1970) (1)
- The Pluralist anti-Levellers of Prague (1971) (1)
- Romanticism and the basis of nationalism (1998) (1)
- Language and Solitude: Foreword (1998) (1)
- Morality and Je Ne Sais Quoi Concepts (1956) (1)
- Language and Solitude: Malinowski's later mistake (1998) (1)
- The Industrial Division of Labour and National Cultures (1982) (1)
- Psychiatry and Salvation: Discussion Paper (1987) (1)
- Perestroika Observed (1990) (1)
- Crisis in Kakania (1998) (1)
- Buddha and Marx. A Review Article (1987) (1)
- The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism (2001) (1)
- Economic Interpretation of History (1990) (1)
- Man in Rapid Social Change (1962) (1)
- Reborn from below (1993) (1)
- Review Essays : Marxist Theory and Soviet Practice Ernest Gellner's Appraisal of Contemporary Soviet Ethnography DANIEL LITTLE Colgate University Ernest Gellner, State and Society in Soviet Thought. Blackwell, Oxford, 1988. Pp. x, 193. $39.95 (1992) (1)
- Human Rights and the New Circle of Equity (1989) (1)
- The first wave of Wittgenstein's influence (1998) (1)
- Saints of Wessex? (1974) (1)
- The Hamadsha: A Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry. By Vincent Crapanzano. Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. xiv+258, bibl., ill. $12, £5.70. (1975) (1)
- Primitive Communism (Review Article) (1973) (1)
- Cambridge Minds: James Frazer and Cambridge anthropology (1994) (1)
- Myth and Reality in Nepal (1978) (1)
- Now I Know My ABC's@@@Encyclopedia of Nationalism. (1991) (1)
- Book Reviews : Reflections on Language. By NOAM CHOMSKY. London: Temple Smith. in association with Fontana Books, 1976. Pp. 266. £5 (1977) (1)
- The Roots of Cohesion (Review Article) (1985) (1)
- Language and Solitude: Malinowski's achievement and politics (1998) (0)
- SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL TRENDS OF THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY (2003) (0)
- FREE, SECULAR, AND COMPULSORY (2003) (0)
- Bibliographies of Ernest Gellner's writings on Wittgenstein, Malinowski, and nationalism (1998) (0)
- Contempory Thought and Politics (1974) (0)
- Academician Ol'derogge (1988) (0)
- Abdallah Laroui, The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977). Translated from the French by Diarmid Cammell. xi + 180 pp., intro., glossary. $12.00 cloth; $3.25 paperback. (1977) (0)
- Free Will and Determinism Yet Again. An Inaugural Lecture by Professor W. B. Gallie, delivered in 1957. (Published by Marjory Boyd, M.A., Printer to the Queen's University of Belfast, 1957. Pp. 28. Price 2s. 6d.) (1959) (0)
- Countries and Peoples of the Pacific Basin. (1973) (0)
- The poem to solitude, or: confessions of a transcendental ego who is also a Viennese Jew (1998) (0)
- 1789-1989: Perestroika and Anthropology (1990) (0)
- Tamara Dragadze: Rural families in Soviet Georgia: a case study in Ratcha Province. (International Library of Anthropology.) xii, 226 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. £35. (1990) (0)
- Swing alone or swing together (1998) (0)
- Television and radio (2003) (0)
- The Far West of Islam@@@Structures Sociales du Haut-Atlas (1958) (0)
- Lecture on fieldwork in the Soviet Union, 1988-9 (2004) (0)
- Art and architecture (2003) (0)
- Michael Gilsenan. Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt . Pp. 248 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1973.) £4·75. (1974) (0)
- Gone and Gone Forever (1977) (0)
- THE STATE AND EDUCATION (2003) (0)
- Popular music and fashion (2003) (0)
- Our Present Condition. (0)
- EDUCATION AND CULTURE (2003) (0)
- Conference on populism: verbatim report (1967) (0)
- Language and Solitude: The impact and diffusion of Wittgenstein's ideas (1998) (0)
- Ibn Khaldun: The Muqaddimah . Translated from the Arabic (and with an introduction) by Franz Rosenthal. (Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1958. 3 vols, 481, plus 463, plus 603 pp. 6 guineas the set.) (1961) (0)
- Reflections on Philosophy, Especially in America (1973) (0)
- Language and Solitude: Malinowski's theory of language (1998) (0)
- Language and Solitude: How did Malinowski get there? (1998) (0)
- The loneliness of the long-distance empiricist (1998) (0)
- The role and organisation of a Berber Zawiya (1961) (0)
- LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND AFTER OR THE SPURIOUS FOX (1957) (0)
- Language in culture (2003) (0)
- The Structure of Traditional Moroccan Society. (1968) (0)
- Language and Solitude: Pariah liberalism (1998) (0)
- The case of the disappearing self (1998) (0)
- The Dangers of Tolerance (1971) (0)
- Book Review:The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in America: Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985 Nathan G. Hale (1995) (0)
- The (un)originality of Malinowski and Wittgenstein (1998) (0)
- Comment devenir Marabout (étude anthropologique) (1976) (0)
- Haim Shaked, The Life of the Sudanese Mahdi: A Historical Study of Kitāb sa'ādat al-mustahdī bi-sīrat al-Imām al-Mahdī (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1978). Pp. xv + 284. (1980) (0)
- Language and Solitude: Individualism and holism in society (1998) (0)
- André Louis, Tunisie du Sud: Ksars er Villages de Crêtes , Preface de S. E. Habib Bourguiba (Paris: Editions du Centre National de Ia Recherche Scientifique, 1975). Pp. 370. (1980) (0)
- Janik and Toulmin: a critique (1998) (0)
- Genesis of the individualist vision (1998) (0)
- PROFESSOR TOULMIN'S RETURN TO ARISTOTLE (1957) (0)
- Talking Aloud on African Socialism (1966) (0)
- J.G. Merquior 1941–1991 (1991) (0)
- THE THEORY OF MODES OF RELIGIOSITY (2004) (0)
- The theory of history : East and West (1990) (0)
- MATTHEW ARNOLD AS PROPHET (2003) (0)
- The world as solitary vice (1998) (0)
- Lord Russell: The World and the Observer . Broadcast on the Third Programme on 2nd February, 1958. (1958) (0)
- Validation As Enchantment?@@@Spectacles and Predicaments: Essays in Social Theory. (1982) (0)
- Sociology : The New Hope (1960) (0)
- Unreasonable ambition (1992) (0)
- No More for Ever: A Saharan Jewish Town. By Lloyd Cabot Briggs and Norina Lami Guède. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum, 1964. Pp. xi, 108, ill., map. (1966) (0)
- CULTURE AND THE REVISED CODE (2003) (0)
- Book Review: Explanation and Human Action (1969) (0)
- Tertium non datur (1998) (0)
- MATTHEW ARNOLD’S THOUGHT IN 1851 (2003) (0)
- Newspapers, magazines and journalism (2003) (0)
- Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein mark 2 (1998) (0)
- The Social Roots of Modern Egalitarianism (1984) (0)
- Studies on North Africa–Introduction to A New Series (1991) (0)
- D. B. Cruise O'Brien. The Mowrides of Senegal. Pp. 321. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971.) £3·50. (1972) (0)
- MIDDLE CLASS EDUCATION (2003) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Rulers and tribesmen (1979) (0)
- Recollection in Anxiety: Thought and Change Revisited (1980) (0)
- Malinowski between Two Worlds: The Polish Roots of an Anthropological Tradition (1990) (0)
- The Cultural Relations of Classification: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (1993) (0)
- The Malinowskian revolution (1998) (0)
- Language and Solitude: The rivals (1998) (0)
- Language and Solitude: Ego and language (1998) (0)
- Trousers in Tunisia (1978) (0)
- Nationalism. The Nature and Evolution of an Idea@@@Nationalist Movements (1977) (0)
- The social and cultural context (2003) (0)
- French eighteenth-century materialism (2004) (0)
- Philosophy, the Social Context (1997) (0)
- SCIENCE AND CULTURE (2003) (0)
- Language and Solitude: Pariah communalism (1998) (0)
- EUR volume 8 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1967) (0)
- Lawrence of Moravia (1994) (0)
- The Distintiveness of the muslim state (1981) (0)
- Language and Solitude: The truth of the matter (1998) (0)
- Language and Solitude: The metaphysics of romanticism (1998) (0)
- Rasy i narody: sovremenyye etnicheskiye i rasovyye problemy. (1972) (0)
- Language and Solitude: The birth of modern social anthropology (1998) (0)
- Language and Solitude: Iron cage Kafka-style (1998) (0)
- EUR volume 8 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1967) (0)
- Patterns of Dissidence (1977) (0)
- A belated convergence of philosophy and anthropology (1998) (0)
- Labor of the Undead: Segmentarity, Globalization and the Temporality of Inequality (0)
- Book Review:Capitalism and Agriculture in the Haouz of Marrakesh Paul Pascon (1988) (0)
- Language and Solitude: The central proposition of the Tractatus : world without culture (1998) (0)
- Arabs and Berbers. (1974) (0)
- Language and Solitude: Recapitulation (1998) (0)
- THE CONFLICT OF OPINION ON NATIONAL EDUCATION (2003) (0)
- Book Reviews : Social Thought in Tsarist Russia. The Quest for a General Science of Society, 1861-1917. By ALEXANDER VUCINICH. Chicago and London: The Univer sity of Chicago Press, 1976. Pp. 294. $15.50 (1979) (0)
- Language and Solitude: The difference between Cracow and Vienna (1998) (0)
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